GLSA 200411-14: Kaffeine, gxine

A Kaffeine, gxine security update has been released

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-14:01
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: Normal
Title: Kaffeine, gxine: Remotely exploitable buffer overflow
Date: November 07, 2004
Bugs: #69663, #70055
ID: 200411-14:01

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Synopsis
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Kaffeine and gxine both contain a buffer overflow that can be exploited when accessing content from a malicious HTTP server with specially crafted headers.

Background
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Kaffeine and gxine are graphical front-ends for xine-lib multimedia library.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-video/kaffeine < 0.5_rc1-r1 >= 0.5_rc1-r1
*>= 0.4.3b-r1
2 media-video/gxine < 0.3.3-r1 >= 0.3.3-r1
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2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.
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Description
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KF of Secure Network Operations has discovered an overflow that occurs during the Content-Type header processing of Kaffeine. The vulnerable code in Kaffeine is reused from gxine, making gxine vulnerable as well.

Impact
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An attacker could create a specially-crafted Content-type header from a malicious HTTP server, and crash a user's instance of Kaffeine or gxine, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Kaffeine users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/kaffeine-0.4.3b-r1"

All gxine users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/gxine-0.3.3-r1"

References
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[ 1 ] SecurityTracker Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Oct/1011936.html
[ 2 ] gxine Bug Report
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1060299group_id=9655atid=109655

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200411-14.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0